The spillover effect of cigarette taxes on youth marijuana use has been the subject of intense public debate. Opponents … experts often claim that because tobacco is a "gateway" drug, higher cigarette taxes will deter youth marijuana use. Using … data from the National and State Youth Risk Behavior Surveys (YRBS) for the period 1991-2017, we explore the relationship …

college students. Every year, more American youth die from suicide than from all leading natural causes of death combined …

We use difference-in-differences models and individual-level data from the national and state Youth Risk Behavior … Surveillance System (YRBSS) from 2005 to 2015 to examine the effects of e-cigarette Minimum Legal Sale Age (MLSA) laws on youth … cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, and marijuana use. Our results suggest that these laws increased youth smoking …

Youth Risk Behavior Surveys, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 and the Treatment Episode Data Set, we estimate …